WH: More info on drone strike report coming ‘soon’

Published June 30, 2016 8:12pm ET



The White House said Monday that efforts to produce a U.S. drone strike civilian casualty report have run into some cultural hurdles within the U.S. intelligence community, but said the administration intends to provide “additional information” on the topic “pretty soon.”

“What [President Obama’s] national security team and the intelligence community is attempting to do is break some old habits in bringing transparency to this element of our national security strategy and counterterrorism strategy,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Thursday when asked if the report would be forthcoming.

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